We are Freely Justified by God through Faith in Christ and based on His Redemption

Justification is God’s action in approving us according to His standard of righteousness; our righteousness as believers in Christ is not a condition we possess in ourselves but a person to whom we are joined – Christ is our rightoeusness, and we are justified by God in Christ, for we’re joined to this living One! Hallelujah!

This week in our morning revival, our topic is, The Result of Our Justification – the Full Enjoyment of God in Christ as our Life.

We have seen that Romans five through eight is the kernel of the Bible; in these chapters, we see two contrasting lines – the line of life and the line of death.

We need to choose the way of life and remain on the path of life. We have been brought on the line of life by our faith in Christ, for we have been joined to the Lord to be one spirit with Him, and He as life is in our spirit.

What a great discovery it is that we have a human spirit which has been regenerated by God!

We don’t need to try to act to please God, nor do we need to do our best to improve ourselves to satisfy God; we simply need to contact God in spirit and live in spirit, and the righteous requirements of God will be fulfilled in us. Hallelujah!

However, whenever we try to fulfil God’s law, for we agree with the righteous requirement of the law, something rises up in us to defeat us and cause us to sin; this is Satan in our flesh as the law of sin and of death.

The only way we can live the Christian life and please God is by setting our mind on our spirit, for our spirit is life, and when we live in and by the divine life, we express God spontaneously.

This week we come to the matter of seeing what is the result of our justification; we may think that it is good enough for us to be justified by God, but there’s actually a result to our justification.

The result of our justification is the full enjoyment of God in Christ as our life. Hallelujah, when God justifies us and we are justified by God, we can enjoy God in Christ in full as our life!

Justification is not the end of the gospel; it is only the basis, the entry. Justification brings in the result of life. Life is the result of justification.

Romans 1:17 says that the righteous shall have life and live by faith; here we see three crucial words: righteous, faith, and life.

In this verse, we see the righteousness of God, the faith of the believers, and the life of Christ. May we realise that the result of our justification is that we enter into the full enjoyment of God in Christ as our life!

We are Freely Justified by God through Faith in Christ and based on His Redemption

Romans 3:24-26 shows us that justification by faith is God’s action in approving us according to His standard of righteousness. The believers’ faith is not a condition that they possess in themselves but a person to whom they are joined, the living Christ Himself. Amen!

What is the righteousness of God? The righteousness of God is God Himself in what God is in righteousness and justice. We all have our human righteousness, but our righteousness is short, for it cannot last, nor can it stand the test.

We often use our own righteousness to measure others and even condemn or criticise them, but when we put our righteousness in front of God’s righteousness, our righteousness is nothing.

When we put our self-righteousness before God’s utmost and highest righteousness, our own righteousness falls very short.

Before God’s unlimited and highest righteousness, our righteousness is nothing; there is no righteous one, not even one.

God desires us to gain His life, but how can we come to God since He is righteous?

First of all, we need to reach a position where we can be justified by God so that we can be qualified to come before God and enjoy God as life. The way God does this is by justifying us by faith.

Justification is God’s action in approving us according to His standard of righteousness. The standard is God’s righteousness, not our righteousness.

How high is God’s righteousness? It is impossible for us to fulfil the requirements of God’s righteousness.

We may be right with our spouse, our family members, our workmates, and our friends, but our own righteousness will never justify us before God.

We may try to justify ourselves according to the standard of our righteousness, even as Job did in the Old Testament, but this doesn’t enable us to be justified by God according to His standard.

What we need is justification by faith.

Romans 3:24 tells us that we are being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!

God doesn’t lower His standard of righteousness in order to approve or justify us, because He loves us; rather, He sent Christ to accomplish redemption. Our justification is based upon the redemption of Christ.

When we believe into the Lord Jesus, the redemption of Christ is applied to us, and we are justified by faith.

If there were no redemption of Christ, it would be impossible for us to be justified by God. How wonderful is this!

Although our righteousness is so short, yet there is this righteous One, Jesus Christ, who came to accomplish redemption for us. He came to fulfil all the righteous requirements of God and He died for us on the cross (Gal. 3:13; Titus 2:14; 1 Pet. 2:24; 3:18).

By faith in Christ, we stand on His redemption to receive Christ as our righteousness (1 Cor. 1:30).

God justifies us in Christ when we believe into the Lord Jesus, for the redemption of Christ is applied to us by faith. Now we can be justified before God not because of our condition but because of what Christ is to us and because of what He has done for us.

May we give up our striving and trying to please God or build our own self-made righteousness and may we come to the Lord by faith and just take Christ as our righteousness so that we may be justified by faith before God!

Amen, we believers in Christ are those who believe into the Lord Jesus and take His redemption as the basis for our righteousness!

Lord Jesus, thank You for dying for us on the cross to accomplish redemption. We believe into You. We believe in the work You have done for us on the cross. We believe in Your redemptive work and we take Your redemption. Thank You for justifying us before God based on Your redemption for us on the cross. Oh Lord, we are not righteous. In ourselves, our righteousness is like filthy rags, for it does not come up to the standard of God’s righteousness. But we come to You and we believe into You! Amen, justification is God’s action in approving people according to His standard of righteousness! Wow, Lord, You can approve us, sinners saved by grace through faith, by making Christ our righteousness! Thank You, Lord! We believe into You! We give up our striving and trying to make up our own righteousness and we simply believe into You, taking Christ as our righteousness today! Hallelujah, we are being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus!

When we Believe into Christ, we Receive God’s Forgiveness and God Justifies us by Making Christ our Righteousness

God is righteous; nothing and no one can match God’s righteousness. We may try as hard as we can, and we may be as righteous as Job was in the Old Testament, but no man-made righteousness is as high and perfect as God’s righteousness.

However, when we believe into Christ, we receive God’s forgiveness and God can justify us by making Christ our righteousness and by clothing us with Christ as our robe of righteousness. Wow!

When we believe into the Lord Jesus, we receive God’s forgiveness (Acts 10:43); God forgives us of all our sins.

Then, God justifies us (Rom. 3:24, 26) by making Christ our righteousness and by clothing us with Christ as our robe of righteousness (see Isa. 61:10; Luke 15:22; Jer. 23:5; Zech. 3:4).

Based on the redemption of Christ, we are justified by faith in Christ and He becomes our righteousness.

Rom. 3:22 speaks of the faith of Jesus Christ; some say this is the act of our believing in the Lord Jesus, while others say it refers to the faith of Christ becoming ours.

Genuine believing is to believe in the Lord Jesus by His faith.

We have no faith of our own; Jesus is the Author and Perfecter of our faith (Heb. 12:2), and when we come to Him, we are infused with Him as our faith. We believe into Christ by His faith, for He becomes our faith.

Therefore, everyone can believe into the Lord, if he really opens to the Lord, for Christ is our faith.

We don’t try to believe in ourselves, for the more we try, the less faith we have. If we just call on the name of the Lord and thank Him for dying for us to redeem us, we are infused with His faith, and we have faith immediately. Praise the Lord!

Before we believed into the Lord, we were rebellious before Him, and we even disagreed with Him; we may have known that God existed, but we had questions, doubts, and accusations toward God.

But one day the Lord convinced us of His righteousness, for in His patience He did many things in us and around us to bring us to the point where we see that He is righteous.

When we were convinced of God’s righteousness, we justified God, for we repented and asked the Lord, God, forgive me, for I’m so sinful and unclean. I need Your forgiveness.

We justify God in this way, and He justifies us freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ and through the faith of Jesus (Rom. 3:24, 26).

Christ has paid the price for all our sins; He has accomplished a full redemption to meet all of God’s requirements, and now by faith we take Christ as our righteousness and God clothes us with Christ as our robe of righteousness.

Based on Christ’s redemption, we believe into Christ and are joined to Him, and now Christ is our righteousness; we are justified by faith in Christ through grace.

As long as we believe into the Lord Jesus and are therefore joined to Him by faith, we receive God’s forgiveness and God can justify us.

God justifies us not because He closes His eyes or because He lowers His standard of righteousness; rather, He justifies us because there’s One who fully satisfies His highest requirements of righteousness and we are joined to Him.

Thank the Lord, He has set Christ forth as our propitiation place; we sinners may come forward to God to meet God and enjoy God in Christ and upon Christ.

We are today in this propitiation place, having the position and ground to meet with God, and God has the ground to communicate with us.

We are justified by faith before God, and God sees us in Christ, for Christ is our robe of righteousness covering us.

We approve God and He approves us. We justify God and God justifies us (Rom. 3:4).

If we investigate God, He is a million per cent right; we justify God on Christ as the propitiation cover. Then, because we believe into the Lord Jesus and are joined to this righteous One, God justifies us.

We justify God by seeing His righteousness and repenting before Him; He justifies us out of faith and based on Christ’s redemption.

Now God has no problem with us and we have no problem with God, for we meet with God in Christ and upon Christ.

The law of God is silenced, for it can no longer speak against us, since Christ is our righteousness. The glory of God can rejoice over us, for we are here in Christ, enjoying God’s full justification.

Christ has become our robe, even as the prodigal son was clothed by the father with the best robe. Hallelujah!

So we approve God first by repenting and believing into Him, and then He justifies us and approves us. Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, we believe into You and we receive by faith the redemption You have obtained for us on the cross! Hallelujah, though we have no faith in ourselves, we believe into the Lord Jesus by His faith becoming our faith! We come to You, Lord, and we believe into You, for You are the Author and Perfecter of our faith. Hallelujah, when we believe into Christ by His faith, we are justified by faith in Christ! Amen, Lord, we approve You and we justify You, for God is righteous and Christ died for us on the cross. Thank You for justifying us by faith based on the redemption of Christ. Oh Lord Jesus, we love You! You are so good! We love to come to You and behold You! Forgive us of all our sins. Cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We want to be joined to You in spirit. We want to remain here, in the organic union with You, enjoying all that You are before God! Hallelujah, we are now in Christ, being justified by faith in Christ based on the Lord’s redemption on the cross!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Romans, msg. 5, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Chapters 5 through 8 of Romans – the Kernel of the Bible (2025 ICSC), week 2, The Result of Our Justification— the Full Enjoyment of God in Christ as Our Life.
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  – God’s Christ, who is my righteousness, / My beauty is, my glorious dress; / Midst flaming worlds, in this arrayed,vWith joy shall I lift up my head. / Lord, I believe Thy precious blood, / Which, at the mercy seat of God, / Forever doth for sinners plead, / For me, e’en for my soul, was shed. (Hymns #295 stanzas 1-2)